PCBWay Oct 22,2021 7288

What are the castellated holes in PCB?

What are the castellated holes in PCB?Castellated Hole,or plated half-hole is a kind of rampart-like structure designed at the edge of a PCB. They are manufactured by creating ordinary plated holes an...

PCBWay Oct 15,2021 11071

Introduction to Printable PCB Antenna – Microstrip Antenna

In this post we are going to learn about Microstrip antenna / printable antenna. It is a type of RF antenna which can be fabricated / printed on a PCB itself. We will see the following:General ov...

PCBWay Sep 30,2021 5461

What is stiffener in Flexible PCB?

Flexible Printed Circuit Board, often called FPC, is a kind of circuit board with high reliability and good flexibility using polyimide as the substrate. It has the features of lightness, thinness,sof...

Stein-Ove Bratthammer Sep 22,2021 2430

full macro studio light control circuit

I wanted to make a control-box for my macro-studio. Because i like to control back-lit and front-lit light on my subject. (on and of)i ordred a macro studio from e-bay. but there was no control-unit. ...

PCB Design CircuitMaker Eagle

PCBWay Apr 12,2021 5145

Smart PCB Design of Boost Converter

The source material for this blog post is from https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slva773/slva773.pdf.PCB DesignsPCB Layout is a tool of high-level engineering for board design in which intelligent hand routin...

PCB design

PCBWay Sep 21,2020 7555

Layout In Pcbnew --- Part 2

Pcbnew is KiCad’s layout editor. Think of it as a drawing program that is specifically designed for drawing printed circuit boards. Pick up a PCB and, and try to identify and list its most important a...

footprint toolbar menus Pcbnew layout PCB Kicad pcb design

PCBWay Sep 14,2020 10054

Layout in Pcbnew --- Part 1

Pcbnew is KiCad’s layout editor. Think of it as a drawing program that is specifically designed for drawing printed circuit boards. Pick up a PCB and, and try to identify and list its most important a...

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PCBWay Sep 09,2020 24627

Manual panelizing of PCBs with tabs and mouse bites in Kicad

Here is a way of panelizing PCBs with tabs and mouse bites in Kicad shared by Sayanee Basu.The example KiCad project is iCEBreaker FPGA1.Panelization footprintOpen up the footprint editor, decide whic...

pcb panelizing tabs mouse bites Kicad

PCBWay Aug 04,2020 4162

Board for building robots --------3DoT Board

As an hardware focused Group, Humans for Robots develops a new expansion dock for the 3DoT Board. The 3DoT Board is the brain, power, and controller of any robot - all on a 35 x 70 mm PCB, It can get ...

3DoT Board robots community mode Bluetooth Arduino Open source hardware microcontroller

PCBWay Aug 03,2020 12495

PCB Design - Eight PCB Marks You May See And Never know What They Are Before

If you’re an electronics hobbyist and you hold a new PCB with your bare hands, usually you will spend several minuets staring at it. You want to capture all the art behind it and to see if there is an...

PCB Design PCB Marks Stamp Holes Types of Holes Solder Thief Pad Fiducial Marks Slots

lesley Jun 24,2020 9057

How to avoid the negative effects of vias in high-speed PCB design

The basic concept of viasVia is an important part of multilayer PCB. The cost of drilling usually accounts for 30% to 40% of the cost of PCB. Simply put, each hole on the PCB can be called via. From a...

Blind Vias Buried Via Through Hole High Speed PCB

lesley Mar 26,2020 5966

Controlling EMI Radiation with PCB Layered Stack-up

There are many ways to solve EMI problems. Modern EMI suppression methods include: using EMI suppression coatings, selecting appropriate EMI suppression parts, and EMI simulation design. This article ...

EMI Radiation，Stack-up PCB layout Electricity Busbar

lesley Mar 18,2020 5843

How to Ensure PCB Design Signal Integrity？

Signal integrity (SI) refers to the quality of the signal on the signal line, that is, the ability of the signal to respond with the correct timing and voltage in the circuit. If the signal in the cir...

Signal Integrity Crosstalk， Stack-up

lesley Jan 16,2020 6845

Stack-up Design in PCB

In general, PCB stack-up design mainly follows two rules:1. Each trace layer must have an adjacent reference layer (power or ground layer);2. Maintain a minimum distance between the adjacent main powe...

EMI Stack-up

lesley Dec 05,2019 4281

7 Tips in Designing PCB

1. Flexible application of via designFor high-voltage, high-current, high-power, and high-heat components, the layout of components should be as loose as possible when designing printed boards. The si...

PCB component copper foil

lesley Oct 24,2019 6635

How to achieve PCB automatic routing efficiently?

1. Determine the number of layers of the PCBBoard size and the number of routing layers need to be determined early in the design process. If the design requires the use of high-density ball grid arra...

Automatic Routing BGA DFM

lesley Oct 10,2019 6312

Key points of seven commonly used interface types in circuit design

We know that there may be some problems in the data exchange of each sub-module of the circuit system so that the signal can not be normally and circulated in high quality. For example, sometimes the ...

interface PCB Design

lesley Oct 05,2019 6272

How to place the inductance of the switching power supply on the PCB design?

This article will explain how to place the inductance of the switching power supply on the PCB design. First, let's look at this question: Where should the coil be placed?Switching regulators for volt...

Switching regulators Buck Conversion

lesley Sep 27,2019 5253

PCB layout tips of DC/DC buck converter

The circuit layout is as important as design when implementing a DC-DC buck converter. Poor layout can seriously reduce the design effect. Now let PCBWay introduce some of the best layout practices.Go...

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